Bulgaria Team Squad FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia

The national team of Bulgaria has appeared in the FIFA World Cup finals on seven times, first was in the FIFA World Cup 1962. However, the team did not qualify for the finals last 2014 World Cup which was held in Brazil since Bulgaria became the fourth one in the qualification group of UEFA.

The team’s very first qualification at the World Cup was in the seventh FIFA World Cup tournament in 1962. From 1962 to 1974, the Bulgarian team has seen in the four consecutive World Cup tournaments however Bulgaria did not survive the first part of the World Cup. The best performance of the national team has shown in 1994, where Bulgarian team reached the semi-finals of FIFA World Cup.

Round 1 of FIFA World Cup 2018 – GROUP A

Qualification Rounds Played By Bulgaria

Until now Bulgaria has played six matches in round one and won three out of six against Luxembourg, Belarus and Netherlands. The team had to face defeat against France, Sweden and Belarus.

The first victory match was played against Luxembourg and won by 4-3 after a very thrilling and closed match where both teams were trying their hard to take the lead and Bulgaria had managed to do so.

The second match was a real hard defeat for Bulgaria against France by 1-4 at Stade de France, Saint Denis. The most recent match was played against Belarus and again got defeated by 2-1 at Borisov Arena, Borisov.

The Coach

The fifty three years old Petar Hubchev who was the former Bulgarian football player is currently the official, who is currently the official head coach of the Bulgaria national football team playing in the FIFA World Cup 2018.

He joined as a coach in late 2016 and until now spent four seasons training and managing team. Petar Hubchev was the key player of the Bulgaria team back in 1994. He has also trained many other top clubs in Bulgaria such as Botev Plovdiv, Slavia Sofia as well as Beroe Stara Zagora.

He also worked with the team before as an assistant coach from 2003 to 2005. Moreover, Hubchev also worked under head coach Plamen Markov as the assistant manager of the Bulgarian team.

Bulgaria Team Squad FIFA World Cup 2018

Bulgaria Team Squad FIFA World Cup 2018

For the very long time the national team of Bulgaria failed to qualify at any major tournament. For about ten year the team has faced failure without getting any success.

The retirement of some of the most talented and prestigious players of the national team along with quite a few changes in the dugout, Bulgaria is looking forward to the talented players goals of Ilian Micanski and Ivelin Popov.

The thirty one year old Bulgarian Stiker Ilian Micanski started his career as a professional footballer at Pirin 1922. He earned 29 appearances in the 2004 and 2005 and scored twenty one goals. He is considered one of the successful strikers of Bulgarian national team.

Bulgaria Team Squad FIFA World Cup 2018 Full List

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Players Name

1

Zhivko MILANOV

2

Petar ZANEV

3

Ivan IVANOV

4

Nikolay DIMITROV

5

Stanislav MANOLEV

6

Dimitar RANGELOV

7

Ivelin POPOV

8

Nikolay MIHAYLOV

9

Aleksandar TONEV

10

Nikolay BODUROV

11

Iliya MILANOV

12

Aleksandar ALEKSANDROV

13

Svetoslav DYAKOV

14

Georgi MILANOV

15

Vladislav STOYANOV

16

Simeon SLAVCHEV

17

Todor NEDELEV

18

Spas DELEV

19

Anton NEDYALKOV

20

MARCELINHO

21

Bozhidar MITREV

22

Strahil POPOV

23

Vasil BOZHIKOV

24

Bozhidar CHORBADZHIYSKI

25

Martin RAYNOV

26

Mihail ALEKSANDROV

27

Georgi BOZHILOV

28

Blagoy MAKENDZHIEV

29

Georgi KOSTADINOV

30

Ivaylo CHOCHEV

31

Dimitar PIRGOV

32

Atanas ZEHIROV

33

Radoslav KIRILOV

34

Andrey GALABINOV

35

Georgi KITANOV

36

Preslav YORDANOV

37

Bozhidar KRAEV

38

Daniel ZLATKOV

39

Stefan VELKOV

40

Kiril DESPODOV

41

Aleksandar VASILEV

42

Aleksandar TSVETKOV

43

Nikolay KRASTEV

44

Alexander TSVETKOV

45

Georgi TERZIEV

46

Aleksandar BASHLIEV

47

Plamen ILIEV

48

Kiril DESPODOV

49

Petar HUBCHEV

50

PETEV Ivaylo

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